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This vlog will be about the passover. a Messanic Passover seder. The Messanic passover seder considers Jesus as the passover lamb. This means that the Passover Lamb has already been slain, once and for all. Jesus is our passover lamb as He was crucified on Passover and his signs were that he would resurrect after three days and three nights, on the third day, after three days. The Messiah has been resurrected.

“As you know, the Passover is two days away–and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.” - Matthew 26:2.

“And He (Jesus) said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” -Luke 22:15

At the beginning of the seder, people gather this evening to observe and remember Passover, God’s deliverance of His people. God delivered Israel from the bondage of slavery and He commanded us to observe this holiday. We are not to celebrate in vain, but to give thanks to Him and to recognize an even greater Passover and deliverance. Through the death of the foretold Messiah-Yeshua, we too will be passed over from death and released from the bondage of sin.

Jesus made a command and told us to do the passover to remember Jesus. “And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19)

We will now begin reading the Haggadah, which means “the telling”. I will do a VERY short form of it. I don’t have 2 hours! The seder plate has different foods on it. Here’s a picture of it. Parsley, salt water, lamb shank bone, charoset (a mixture of apple, spice, nuts, etc), Horseradish.  (some have more on thier dishes but this is as far as I will go.)

There are also 4 cups of “wine” (juice) that represents different things. Jesus’ first miracle was turning water to wine. During the Passover Seder we will drink four glasses of wine: The Cup of Sanctification, the Cup of Plagues, The Cup of Redemption and the Cup of Praise. Santification means cleansing of yeast. Yeast is compared to sin. Plague is of the plagues the Egyptians experienced. It is compared to our trials and tribulations, God will take us out of it. Redemption symbolizes the blood of the lamb that saved the Israelites.  Jesus is our redemption. We are saved by His blood. Praise is given to God for delivering the Israelites, and we give Jesus praise for salvation is given to us.

Parsley is dipped in salt water as a rememberance of the Israelite’s pain and tears. We will have painful circumstances in our lives, but we know God will always free us from our tribulations. 

Matzo crackers (demostration). “Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast–as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. [8] Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.”-1 Corinthians 5:6-8

 The stripes represents Jesus’s beating as its purpose is to HEAL us. The holes in the cracker represents the holes in Jesus’ body.  It is broken into three pieces - God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit.

The cracker that represents Jesus is hidden and the children have to find it. Some rabbis will try to negotiate with kids for a price as did Judas. Some Rabbi will pay a price for the cracker to show the price that Jesus paid for our sins.

I will tell the story of Passover.  (VERY short version). Israelites moved to Egypt because there was a famine. Joseph was a Hebrew ruler of Egypt next to the Pharoah. Hundreds of years later, a new Pharoah didn’t know Joseph and feared that there was a LARGE number of Israelites in Egypt and that they may overtake Egypt so he made them all slaves.  A baby named Moses was born and his mother gave him away because the king ordered that all males Hebrews are to be killed. The baby ended up in the Pharoah’s daughter’s hand and Moses grew up to be wise and smart. One day he ran away from Egypt and God appeared to him and said he must deliver the Israelites. Moses returned to Egypt and demanded that the Israelites be freed. Pharoah didn’t listen and as a result, Egypt faced many plagues.  God said He would strike down every first born-humans and animals unless there was a lamb blood over the doorpost and threshold. God instructed that the Hebrews do this and to He will pass over.

Different plages came before the passover:  Blood!  Frogs! Gnats! Wild Beasts! Disease to Livestock! Boils! Hail! Locusts! Darkness! Death of the Firstborn. People dip their hands on the salt water and let a drop fall in the bowl. This is the time that Judas was identified as the betrayer.  “And while they were eating, he said, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.” They were very sad and began to say to him one after the other, “Surely not I, Lord? Jesus replied, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.” -Matthew 26:21-23

The shank bone reminds us of the lamb whose blood marked the doors of the Israelites. We know that Yeshua was our final blood atonement so that we would be freed from the bondage of sin and we would be passed over from death.

There is a cup of Elijah. People will open the door to let Elijah in. The door passover to  Messianic redemption. “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” -Revelations 3:20

 There is a new covenant. God has made a new covernant with us all. We are all called  to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and might, and to treat others with kindness.  Seek a relationship with God, not a “religion”.

(picture of Messiah on a white horse!)

See you next year in Jerusalem!

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Hi! I would like to talk about David and Goliath. Basically almost everyone knows the story of David and Goliath. You can read about that in 1 Samuel 17.  David was a young Israelite boy, who was a shepherd for his father, Jesse. Jesse had other sons that were at war against the Philistines. Jesse sent David to the war camp to give food and ‘morale boost’ for his brothers. When David arrived at the war camp, he heard a man, who was a giant, that called for a fighter. The giant is over 9 feet tall. It was common back in those days, there were groups of people with that height but it’s rare nowdays. In Bulgaria, the tallest man stands at 9 feet. Goliath was his name and he was a champion. Goliath kept telling the Israelites to send up a fighter. Goliath wore an armor that was full of copper from head to toe. If Goliath is able to kill the fighter, the Israelites would forever be their servants. If the fighter is able to kill Goliath, the Philistines would be their servants.

A lot of Israelites were afraid– terrified!!! They were mumbling saying, “Gosh, WHO can kill this giant!? We’re grasshoppers!!!” David did NOT have that mentality. David said, “Who is this uncircumcized man that we should be afraid of? This is the armies of God.“ -1 Samuel 17:26.

 The height didn’t bother David at all. David saw that the giant was uncircumcised. The point of David saying that is because David had a mentality that God is with him. God had made a covenant with the Israelites. God does not break promises. Never. We break promises. We tend to be unstable while God is always stable. Even the Israelites soliders were circumcised– they HAVE a covenant with God but they forgot about it- their mentality is shifted off.

We have a covenant with God through Jesus Christ. Jesus circumcises our heart. “In him you were also circumcised,  in the putting off of the sinful nature,   not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ,”- Colossians 2:11

Many times we get terrified over situations. We have to fix our mentality– Who is the  supreme divine being we made our covenant with? David made a covenant with God- the Almighty. Goliath chose to worship another ‘diety’ therefore God was not with him. It was Goliath’s decision.

Now back to David, David didn’t need an armor when he declared that he’d be the fighter. He had on a shepherd outfit and a stick. He walked up to King Saul and said, “I’ll do it.”King Saul said, “David! You are only a kid! You’ve never been at war!” David said, “I’ve killed a bear and a lion before when they tried to attack my sheep.“ 

King Saul allowed David to walk up to Goliath and when Goliath saw David, he was quick to make jokes. “Ha! What!? You Israelites send me a boy! What am I? A dog? Haha!” And I can imagine a lot more jokes! David didn’t let that bother him. He picked up a rock and got his sling and said outloud, “You come against me with your armor but I come against you with the Lord God of Israel. God is with me and I will kill you.” David started the sling about and the rock hit Goliath right in the head. He just stumbled about and died. David cut his head. The Philistines lost. The Israelites were overjoyed! They began taking over the Philistines.

The David mentality is what I keep close to me towards things, situations, life, money, and etc. God is with me. I have a covenant with God. “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” -Romans 8:31.  NOTHING can be against us. I mean, NOTHING. We have to STAY with God– be in Him so He can work with us just like He worked with David. If anyone tells me that “some situations just don’t work out, that’s life. Accept it”. I’m not going to believe it. I didn’t make a covenant with people. I made covenant with the Living God.  

All battles you face here on Earth can be overcomed– and when you overcome them, God is glorified in this. Just like Jesus explained when he talks of us being the branch of the vine. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit;  apart from me you can do nothing.If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me  and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory,  that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” –John 15:5-8

Jesus makes very clear that apart from God, we can do nothing. Failures after failures. Unsolved problems after unsolved problems. But if we are with Him, –remember Jesus also said ‘and MY WORDS remain in you”—so yes, studying the Bible has a main KEY in how you can live your life. Jesus goes on to say, “ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. This is to my Father’s glory,  that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. “ God wants you to be full of joy—- Imagine the hearts of the Israelites when they realized that the champions of the Phillistines is dead and that everyone had run away. They were full of JOY!  That’s what God wants us to have. FULL of Joy. That we can say “YEAHHHH!”

I encourage you all to remember your covenant with God, if you already have it, and to overcome your situation— your struggles and problems are uncircumcised. You’re circumcised! Speak against the problem and acknowledge God in everything you do and He will bring you all the way through!